Learn To Program JavaScript

The simplest way to learn to program JavaScript - the language of the web.

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Learn To Program JavaScript (in
ten easy steps) is suitable for beginner programmers. Step-by-step it
explains how to write JavaScript code to run in a web browser on Windows, Linux
or Mac OS X.

JavaScript is the
language of the web. If you need to program web sites to run on desktop
computers or mobile devices, you have to know JavaScript.

This
course explains all you need to know in order to write JavaScript and make
sense of other people’s JavaScript code. Every step of the way you can follow
along with ready-to-run code in in short, easy-to-understand JavaScript
programs.

You
will begin by learning the core features of programming – variables, functions
and data types. You will move on to learn about specific capabilities of
JavaScript – how to use it to automate web pages, hide email addresses, swap
stylesheets interactively; how to load XML data to create so-called AJAX
applications, how to animate images and use some of the drawing capabilities of
HTML5.

The
sample projects are all provided ready for you to download, run and modify. The
course also includes a course eBook, The
Little Book Of JavaScript, that provides even more information on the
topics being discussed.

The
course instructor,Huw Collingbourne, is Director of
Technology with SapphireSteel Software, a company that specialises in Visual
Studio development tools for professional programmers. Founder of Bitwise
Courses – producers of multimedia instruction courses – Huw's courses have taught tens of thousands of people to program.

Learn To Program JavaScript (in
ten easy steps) is the
fastest and simplest way to learn to program web pages like a pro.

Your Instructor

Huw Collingbourne

Huw Collingbourne is the technology director at SapphireSteel Software, developers of tools for Microsoft Visual Studio. He is author of The Book Of Ruby from No Starch Press. He runs Bitwise Courses (http://www.bitwisecourses.com) and teaches courses on a range of programming topics.

Huw has been a programmer for more than 30 years. He is a well-known technology writer in the UK. For over ten years he wrote the Delphi and Object Pascal programming column for PC Plus Magazine. He has also written numerous opinion and programming columns (including tutorials on C, C#, Java, Smalltalk, Delphi and Ruby) for a number of computer magazines, such as ComputerShopper, Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine, PC Pro, and PC Plus.

In the 1980s he was a pop music journalist and interviewed most of the New Romantic stars, such as Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Adam Ant, Boy George, and Depeche Mode. He is now writing a series of New Romantic murder mysteries.

At various times Huw has been a magazine publisher, editor, and TV broadcaster. He has an MA in English from the University of Cambridge and holds a 2nd dan black belt in aikido, a martial art which he teaches in North Devon, UK (http://hartlandaikido.blogspot.co.uk/). The aikido comes in useful when trying (usually unsuccessfully) to keep his Pyrenean Mountain Dogs under some semblance of control.